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Saturday, April 21, 2018

Freedom Caucus seeks to make McCarthy pay to become speaker

The Freedom Caucus is prepared to exact a price from Kevin McCarthy if he wants to be the next speaker of the House — three years after foiling his first bid for the job.

A POLITICO survey of about 20 of the conservative group’s three dozen members found varying degrees of openness to the California Republican known as a deal-making pragmatist. But nearly all the hard-liners said he’ll have to make concessions to win their support. Without it, they could block his path to the speakership.

“We’re not just going to rearrange the deck chairs around this place and keep doing the same stuff with different people,” said Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.), a caucus board member. McCarthy, currently the majority leader, “hasn’t earned my vote."

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Anonymous said...

Why do democrats hate free speech, guns and white people?? I was a democrat until 2016 because it was supposed to be the party of the working man but it is NOT and never was. I had to file bankruptcy to cover Obamacare for my family and now I don't have any health insurance. I'm voting Republican. MAGA